How to Read Biblical Greek | Lesson 9: Imperfect and Future Tenses

Greek has a past continuous tense, and it’s called the imperfect. In this lesson, we learn how “I am losing” becomes “I was losing,” and how a single added letter turns a verb toward the future.

Let’s work through the imperfect active indicative, the augment and the vowels it changes, and the future active indicative with its sigma rules for gutturals, labials, and dentals. We finish with Vocabulary 8, words that occur 80 to 94 times in the Greek New Testament.